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Image Color Picker

Extract the dominant colors and the average color from an image as HEX codes, choosing from 2 to 12 swatches for a ready-made color palette.

About Image Color Picker

A color extractor finds the main colors used in a picture. This tool shrinks the image to at most 120 pixels per side, groups pixels into 4,096 color buckets, ranks the buckets by pixel count, and skips any color too close to one already chosen. It reports 2 to 12 dominant colors with their share, plus the overall average, as HEX codes. Mostly transparent pixels are ignored. You cannot click a point to sample it.

Also known as: Color Palette Extractor, Image Color Extractor, Get Colors from Image, Image Average Color Finder.

How to use Image Color Picker

  1. Choose an image, or drag it onto the upload area. The file is read by your browser and is not uploaded.
  2. Set "Number of colors". The preview updates as you change them.
  3. Read the result below the preview and copy what you need.

Questions about Image Color Picker

Can I click on the image to pick the color of one pixel?

No. The tool analyzes the whole image and lists its most common colors with a percentage for each. It has no eyedropper for sampling a single point.

Why is an accent color I can clearly see missing from the palette?

Colors are ranked by how many pixels they cover, so a small bright accent can lose to large background areas. Increase the number of colors to 12, or crop the image to the area you care about first.

Runs in your browser. Page last updated .

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